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VOICE OF OC
We watch Khloe Rios-Wyatt stand on the outskirts of this Wednesday lunch. She always seems to be in meaningful conversation with someone. She is the president and one of four founders of Alianza Translatinx, which began as a support group…
THE OC REGISTER
When Monde Nolasco lost her job as soon as the coronavirus pandemic hit, there were few places she could go to for help. Nolasco, 42, of Anaheim is a transgender woman who used to work as a costume designer for showgirls. When she lost her job, she found herself struggling to make rent and buy food.
“As a transgender woman, it is also very difficult to find a job,” she said. “It’s really adding to my stress.”
Nolasco and other transgender women who have been struggling through this pandemic have found some respite at Alianza Translatinx…
ORANGE COUNTY MAGAZINE
Orange County is home to many trailblazers in the local LGBTQ community who tirelessly work to serve others, advocate for inclusivity and equal rights, and inspire those around them to live and love as their authentic selves. In honor of Pride Month, we’re celebrating those individuals and the organizations they lead, and hearing them tell us, in their own words, what Pride means to them…
TRANSGENDER STRATEGY CENTER
Alianza Translatinx was born out of the necessity to create and promote inclusiveness for the transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) community in the conservative Orange County (OC) in California. Amid the global COVID-19 pandemic which exacerbated the challenges and needs of the TGNC community, Alianza Translatinx was founded by four transgender Latinx women: Khloe Rios-Wyatt, Cinthya Espinosa, Rachel Pozos, and Leslie Jimenez. Its leadership, which is representative of the people they serve…
ALIANZA TRANSLATINX RESOLUTION
Click through to see a huge accomplishment where our Orange County leadership vowed to stand in solidarity with transgender, gender non-conforming and non-binary individuals…